Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience

Published: October 22nd, 2004

Originator: Chesapeake Bay Program

A Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience, or MWEE, enables students to participate in hands-on environmental learning about the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This experience will serve as the foundation for a rich, lifelong relationship between students and their Bay. Throughout the MWEE process, students develop a sense of environmental ethics and stewardship that are essential to the long-term sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay. In addition, studies have shown that hands-on environmental education increases the academic performance of students in a variety of subjects.